[Gendispatch] Re: New draft: draft-rescorla-auto-minutes-00

[John R Levine <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM John Levine <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>> It appears that Eric Rescorla  <[e-mail]> said:
>>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-rescorla-auto-minutes-00.html
>>
>>>> This draft recognizes the practice of using the automated transcript
>>>> as a starting point for the minutes (with the chairs having the final
>>>> approval, of course), and asks the IETF LLC to make a few small
>>>> changes to the tools to facilitate that practice.
>>
>> Based on the discussion so far, I think it would help to make it clearer that
>> the transcript is not the minutes, and it is still up to the chairs or someone
>> they delegate to use the transcript and recording to produce the actual minutes.
>
> Well, someone else could write that draft, but that's not the intention of
> this draft.

I suspect I am not the only person who is confused about what the intent 
is here.

Is it that the chairs should just wave their hands over the transcript and 
that's good enough?  Or something else?

Having taken minutes for a lot of meetings, including being the secretary 
of ISOC for five years, I have found that there is considerable value in 
concise minutes that just record the decisions.  Perhaps without making 
any formal process changes we could try to encourage chairs to do that, 
keeping the transcript for anyone who wonders about the details of the 
discussion.

Regards,
John Levine, [e-mail], Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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